Camouflaging my kayak

[Edgar]

Does anybody have any advice on camouflaging my kayak. The vinyl type would be nice, but way to expensive.

[cpresoz]

Are you thinking about hiding your kayak while you go get your car? There's a whole world of camo netting that can wad up in a small ball until you need it.

[Edgar]

I'm afraid if I did that I wouldn't be able to find it when I returned. I am hoping the birds might be so startled as they with it being a bright orange. I will go looking tomorrow.
Thanks

[cpresoz]

You could glue a bunch of sticks and bark all over your boat!

[Edgar]

Nah, to much drag. I might try to make it look like a bug log floating along.

[Cowper]

I used this http://www.krylon.com/products/camoufla ... echnology/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

for my Wenonah Rendezvous, which was previously maroon in color.

I covered the boat in the darker olive drab as my "base" color. Instead of their stencils, laid some bush branches on the boat, then hit them lightly with the black to give some "break up" patterns. I also used a little of the brown or "desert" camo, but found it didn't really add anything to the effect for my intended swamp environment.

Up close, it kind of looks like crap compared to the Mossy oak commericial patterns. But based on photographs, and on how long it takes me to find the boat when walking back to find it after a short walk in the woods, I feel I achieved the desired effect - the boat is much harder to see. Since birds have an overhead view, I also hit the inside of the boat, not just the exterior.

Maybe once a year or so, I might have to "touch up" a scrape where some has worn off, but in truth a small area of the old color doesn't really detract from the overall effect that much.

Of course, wildlife still makes me out based on noise and movement the same as ever, but I FEEL stealthier and that helps me get in the mood for sitting still at least some of the time, so maybe the camo is helping me by a more indirect route.

[fryingsquirrel]

Here's a shot of Cowper in one of his camo boats from a swamp trip a while back. Not sure which boat, though.

[Edgar]

Thanks guys, I have decided to try a cover out of a camo burlap I bought last year. I'll let you know how it works. Cowper I think John posted the wrong picture, I can't find you anywhere.

[mohawklady]

he is in there click on picture the picture and look on the far right side, that pic was taken two years ago on the de vue slamp float we took in November. we were in a tandem canoe and some of the area was really tight for a big canoe to float through, but we made it!!

[c8mb]

I have decided to try a cover out of a camo burlap I bought last year. I'll let you know how it works.

Edgar, are you going to use some type of contact cement or?.........I've debated camo'ing my kayak too and burlap was one thought. I didn't know how it'd do wet though.

[cpresoz]

That's some good camo on Cowper. Also in the picture, and you can't see, are the Predator up in the tree above Cowper and Arnold Schwarzzenegger in the clump of trees to the left of him.

[Edgar]

I got a local cover company to sew an elastic ban around it.

[Edgar]

I found him!

[Edgar]

The camo burlap covers works GREAT!! In the past I couldn't get within 600 feet and on Saturday I got within 75 feet.

[MStrobel]

Great pictures, but I want to see some pictures of your camouflaged kayak.